School Choice For All Students! - a podcast by Dolores Williams

Todd is a long-time parent/student advocate and activist in San Diego County. He and his wife have three great kids, educated through Oceanside schools, with one still in high school. Todd was the first parent representative in Oceanside’s Local Control Accountability Plan Committee, a leader of the District Parent Advisory Committee, is a current member of the El Camino High School Site Council.  He survived a run for school board in 2020 (regrettably unsuccessful…) He is also a founding member of the San Diego Schools and Parent Association advocacy groups, and is also the San Diego County Chair for the California School Choice Foundation. In private industry Todd has been a CEO, spent decades as a customer service executive for a national retailer, and is currently the Research Director with the public compensation watchdog site Transparent California.  Transparent California currently has pay records on over 28 million public employees in the state of California. Todd firmly believes that our schools need to pay attention to what their customers – parents – want for the education of their kids, not what district employees want for themselves.

About California School Choice:
The California School Choice Foundation is working to bring an initiative to the 2022 to amend the California state constitution to allow for true school choice – to make sure parents have the ability to determine the best education options for their kids. Our initiative would establish Education Savings Accounts for each child that would be credited with their share of CA’s existing Prop 98  funding (currently about $12,500).  That share would be used at any accredited school, which would include public, charter, private, faith-based, and homeschool options. Anything left over at graduation could be used toward higher education or vocational training.  Parents who choose the least expensive option – homeschooling – could have over $100,000 per child available for higher education or vocational training! No extra cost to the state or taxpayer (no new taxes.  No change for public schools - funding would still be given to them according to their enrollment, same as now. All it would do is give parents more control over the education of their kids.  And we all know who cares the most about the education of our kids – we do!

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